post

• poast (obsolete)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊst/
• (General American) enPR: pōst, IPA^(key): /poʊst/

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• Rhymes: -əʊst

From Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French.

post (plural posts)

1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
2. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
3. A pole in a battery.
4. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
5. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
6. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
7. (sports) A goalpost.
   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:

     But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.

8. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
   • (Can we date this quote?) S. Rowlands

     When God sends coin / I will discharge your post.

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

   Post no bills.

2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

   to post someone for cowardice

   • (Can we date this quote?) Granville

     On pain of being posted to your sorrow / Fail not, at four, to meet me.

3. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Arbuthnot

     You have not posted your books these ten years.

4. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
   • (Can we date this quote?) London Saturday Review

     thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

5. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).

   Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

6. To put content online, usually through a publicly accessible mean, such as a video channel, gallery, message board, blog etc.

• poster

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

post (plural posts)

1. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. [16th-17th c.]
2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

   a stage or railway post

3. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
4. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) Archbishop Abbot

     In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, / Receiving them from such a worthless post.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 199:

     information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

5. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]

   sent via post; parcel post

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

6. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]
7. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum. [from 20th c.]
8. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
9. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

   Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

10. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

      In post he came.

11. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Palfrey

      He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

     Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

2. To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Post speedily to my lord your husband.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     And post o'er land and ocean without rest.

3. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]

   Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.

4. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
5. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]

   I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

• poster

post (not comparable)

1. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 353:

     In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 93:

     He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.

2. Sent via the postal service.

• German: posten

Probably from French poste.

post (plural posts)

1. An assigned station; a guard post.
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. An appointed position in an organization, job.
   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

     She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
2. To assign to a station; to set; to place.

   Post a sentinel in front of the door.

   • De Quincey

     It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, […] or to get him posted.

Borrowed from Latin post.

post

1. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
   • 2008, Michael Tomasky, "Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show", The Guardian, online,

     One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

   • 2008, Matthew Stevens, "Lew pressured to reveal what he knows", The Australian, online,

     Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

post (uncountable)

1. (film, informal) Post-production.
   • 2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image

     Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

• post-

• OTPs, POTS, PTOs, Spot, TPOs, opts, pots, spot, stop, tops

From Old Occitan, from Latin postus, from positus.

post

1. past participle of pondre

• IPA^(key): [poːst]

post m (plural postow)

1. post (method of sending mail)

• lytherva
• postya
• sodhva an post

• Rhymes: -ɔst

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post m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. mail
2. mail office
3. location or station, when a soldier is op post, he is where he is supposed to be.
4. post (position, office)

   Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor de posten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for the posts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)

• handelspost
• postzegel

post

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of posten
2. imperative of posten

• spot, stop

Latin post

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• IPA^(key): /post/
• Hyphenation: post

post

1. after
2. behind

From English post.

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (message on a blog, etc.)

• posta (Cois Fharraige)

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): [pˠɔsˠt̪ˠ]

post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)

1. timber post, stake
2. (historical) post, letter carrier; (letter) post; postman
3. (military) post
4. (of employment) post, job

• "post" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “post” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “post” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Borrowed from English post.

post m (invariable)

1. (Internet) post (message in a forum)

• spot, stop

• IPA^(key): /ˈpost/

post m

1. skin

From pre-Italic *pós +‎ *-ti. May also relate to Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /post/, [pɔst]

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post (+ accusative)

1. (of space) behind
2. (of time) after, since, (transf.) besides, except

post (not comparable)

1. (of space) behind, back, backwards
2. (of time) afterwards, after

• (before): ante

• post-
• poster/ posterus
• postīcus

• post in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• post in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• post in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• post in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to overtake and pass some one: post se relinquere aliquem
    
  • to become famous, distinguish oneself: clarum fieri, nobilitari, illustrari (not the post-classical clarescere or inclarescere
    
  • within the memory of man: post hominum memoriam
    
  • within the memory of man: post homines natos
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841

• IPA^(key): [puôst]

post tr., 1st conj., pres. pošu, pos, poš, past posu

1. tidy, clean, adorn
2. dress up, smarten

From Italian posta (in the given sense)

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural poster, definite plural postene)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

• “post” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian posta (in this sense)

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural postar, definite plural postane)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

• “post” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).

• IPA^(key): /post/

post m

1. post
2. pedestal

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

post m inan

1. fast

• (verb) pościć impf
• (adjective) postny

Borrowed from English post.

post m anim

1. post (message)

• post in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English post.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpowst͡ʃ/, /ˈpost͡ʃ/

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (individual message in an on-line discussion)

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

post n (plural posturi)

1. fast (period of abstaining from or eating very little food), fasting

• păresimi
• Postul Mare

Borrowed from French poste.

post n (plural posturi)

1. post, position, job, place, appointment, station

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔs̪t̪/

post m (genitive singular puist, plural puist)

1. post, mail
2. Alternative form of posta
3. post, stake

• cairt-phuist
• post-bàire
• post-dealain

post (past phost, future postaidh, verbal noun postadh, past participle poste)

1. post, mail

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

• IPA^(key): /pôːst/

pȏst m (Cyrillic spelling по̑ст)

1. fast, fasting

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ́st/
• Tonal orthography: pȍst

pòst m inan (genitive pôsta, uncountable)

1. fast (act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): /pos̪t̪/

post m (plural posts)

1. (computing) post

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/

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• Rhymes: -ɔst

post c

1. postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
2. (uncountable) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
3. item of a list or on an agenda
4. post; an assigned station
5. position to which someone may be assigned or elected

   Posten som ordförande i idrottsföreningen är vakant.

   The position as chairman in the sports association is free.

• posta
• postkontor
• postlåda
• Posten

• IPA^(key): [post]

post (definite accusative postu, plural postlar)

1. fur, hide, pelt

   Synonym: kürk

Borrowed from English post.

post m (uncountable)

1. post, mail

• postfeistr (“postmaster”)
• postio (“to post”)

From Latin postis.

post m (plural pyst)

1. post, pillar

• mynegbost (“signpost”)

• postyn